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Globe & Mail June 13, 1990
POLICE CAPTURE ARMED MAN
Tear Gas Ends 71/2 Hour Standoff At Downtown Gun Shop
By Robert Steiner
TORONTO - A 23-year-old armed man was captured last night by the Police
Emergency Task Force after a 7 1/2 hour standoff at a downtown gun
shop.
Police sprayed the Yonge Street gun shop with tear gas and entered it
wearing gas masks at 9:45 p.m. They discovered a man in the basement
next to two loaded rifles.
The man, concious and uninjured, was taken to hospital.
"He was hiding in the basement with two armed rifles," Staff-Inspector
Robert Molyneaux told reporters moments after the capture. "We had seen
him moving around the store with weapons and a metal helmet before he
disappeared from our view."
During five hours of negotiations, the man told police he had problems
with his girlfriend and was considering suicide, the police negotiator,
Staff Sergeant Terry Kelly, said. "He was intending to commit suicide."
The man entered Nick's Sport Shop near Wellesley Street at about 2 p.m.
yesterday, where he grabbed a handgun from the shop owner. The staff
and customers fled. Emergency Task Force officers crouched in doorways
on either side of the shop.
Officers working from a command post near a subway station quickly
established communication with the gunman and tried to persuade him to
give himself up. Later, the man's girlfriend and a male friend were
brought in, Detective Sergeant Lou Villani said.
Shortly before 8 p.m., the man ripped out the phone cord and
disappeared from view. Police said they didn't know whether he was
still concious or even alive.
"He could be passed out or he could have passed away," said Staff
Sergeant Mike Sale after contact with the man was lost. "Time is of the
essence now: we must go inside and see how he is."
Before releasing tear gas, police sent a Fox robot into the store. The
machine is operated by the bomb disposal unit and equipped with a video
camera and stun gas. The gas would have been triggered if the robot had
been attacked.
After 15 minutes when the robot had found nothing on the store's first
floor, police sprayed the store with tear gas and sent in Emergency
Task Force officers.
Police identified a man in custody as Chris McKinstry.
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